“I die in the faith of my people. May the German people be aware of its enemies!”

—  Paul Blobel

Blobel's last words
Source: [Time, Germany: Case Closed, 18 June 1951, http://content.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,814963,00.html]

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